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Seib & Wessel: What We’re Reading Monday

Nov 4, 2013 7:28 am ET

By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel

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The international community’s “shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world,” writes Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud, a former intelligence chief and ambassador to the U.S. “Western leaders’ dithering, and the callous, cynical, and cavalier support of Russia and China for Assad, is a stigma that they will bear forever. Iran’s support for the regime is nothing less than a war crime.” [Project Syndicate]

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